Quotes About Balance

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.